Tracing the life of a giant in inorganic chemistry and key trends in his science, Boranes and Beyond follows Hawthorne from his mid-American origins to the halls of Harvard and UCLA and back again. It naturally details the accomplishments in his lab. This book is a fascinating mixture of science and autobiography. Prof. Hawthorne won the Priestley Medal, the highest award of the American Chemical Society, for his pioneering work in elucidating the chemistry of boron. He has chronicled in this book the developments in his lab which ultimately led to this achievement.
Not content to rest on his laurels, after retiring from UCLA Prof. Hawthorne explored the use of boron in biomedicine and directed the International Institute of Nano & Molecular Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
PART I MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INORGANIC CHEMISTRY.-
1. Exploratory
Chemistry with a Multifunctional Model Borane, B10H14.-
2. Discovery of the
Polyhedral Borane Anions [ closo-B10H10]2-.- 3.The Genesis and Evolution of
Carborane Chemistry: Examples of Heteroatom-Substituted Borane Clusters.-
4.
The Design and Synthesis of Hybrid Borane Clusters: Metallacarboranes and
Metallaboranes.-
5. Probing New Reactions: Oxidative Addition to B-H Bonds,
Reactions at Metal Vertices and Catalysis.- 6.- The Search for Clustered
Clusters.-
7. Unique Main Group, Lanthanide and Alkaline-Earth
Metallacarboranes; Sandwiches, Baskets, and Self-Assembled Chains.-
8.
Biomedical Applications of Borane Cluster Chemistry.- 9.Carborane-Supported
Macrocyclic Lewis Acids: Novel Electrophilic Host Species.-
10. Molecular
Frameworks Based upon Carborane Cages.- 11.Highly Alkylated Carborane
Icosahedral [ closo-B12H12]2- Derivatives (Camouflaged Carboranes and
Polyhedral Boranes).-
12. Icosahedral Borane Dianion and Carborane Species
with Hydroxylated Surfaces.-
13. Advances in [ closo-B10H10]2- and Related
[ B20H18]2-/[ B20H18]4 Chemistry.- A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ALBUM.- PART II
MY PERSONAL STORY.-
14. Early Life in Kansas and Missouri.-
15. WW II, High
School and Chemistry.-
16. College Entry and Chemistry Mentor.-
17. Pomona
College and Research.-
18. UCLA Graduate Work with Donald J. Cram, and
Predoctoral Fellowship.-
19. PhD Thesis.-
20. Postdoctoral Research with
George Hammond at Iowa State.-
21. Huntsville Research at Start of Career.-
22. Life With Explosives and Rockets.-
23. Creating A New Research Group
Based Upon Sparsely Known Borane Chemistry.-
24. Success in New Fields of
Propellant Chemistry.-
25. Moving on to New Concepts for Solid
PropellantRocket Fuel.-
26. Energetic Materials.-
27. Ralph Connor and Rohm
and Haas Huntsville.-
28. Harvard Teaching.-
29. Laboratory Head at Rohm and
Haas Philadelphia.-
30. Full Professor at UC Riverside and Flying.-
31.
Metallacarboranes etc.-
32. Flying with Herb Brown, Nobel Laureate.-
33. Hank
Herring.-
34. Industrial and Military Consulting.-
35. Boron Neutron Capture
Therapy.-
36. UCLA Professor 1969 to 2006.-
37. Editorship of Inorganic
Chemistry.-
38. Return to Missouri: The Founding Director for The
International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine.-
39. Personal
Experience with Head and Neck Cancer.-
40. BNCT Odyssey.- AFTER-WORDS.-
BIBLIOGRAPHY.- AWARDS, HONORS AND LECTURESHIPS.
Armed with a PhD in Organic Chemistry from UCLA in 1953, Professor Hawthorne went on to establish himself as a giant in Inorganic Chemistry. He was a true chemistry pioneer, discovering boron cluster structures that have paved the way in inorganic, organometallic, material, nanotechnology and medicinal sciences. He returned to UCLA in 1968 and was a distinguished Professor of Inorganic Chemistry for thirty-three years. After retiring from UCLA Professor Hawthorne moved to the University of Missouri to further his research, and in so doing broadened the field even more. Along the way as he shaped and broadened the field, he also touched the lives of countless students, faculty, researchers, friends and family throughout the world. Along with many other awards at home and internationally, in honor of his contributions, the American Chemical Society established the M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry in 2017.
